The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. — John Irving Copy Share Image
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“He heard a furious rustling, a disturbance in the trees. He followed Zander’s final glance and saw the angel frozen in mid-air,… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“I would finish my evening online class at 9:30 pm and then after making and eating a quick dinner would then keep… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. — William Golding Copy Share Image
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. — Golo Mann Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in… — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“I cieli non sono umani e la vita sopra di me e sotto di me e dentro di me neppure.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden,… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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